The Lawrence Summers of Popes

The Daily Show suggests that Benedict is the George Lazenby of Popes, if not Roger Moore. It’s a thought, but I have a different suggestion: he is the Lawrence Summers. They’re two guys big brains who spent most of their lives in hothouse environments where you could pretty much say what you wanted to, and where you could win the argument with your smart mouth. As Manuel Paleologos II might say, if you can’t run with the big dogs, stay out of the kitchen.

Nb: linking the Daily Show is the blogger equivalent of brain death, but the bit link up there is really really funny.

Concession fn: a reader points out that the Pope doesn’t have two uncles who are Nobel Prize winners, and he doesn’t get to chum around with Elisa New. So far as we know, heh heh.